A Simple Twist of Fate

A Simple Twist of Fate (1994) is a family drama starring Steve Martin that you can watch online on iFILM. Michael McCann learns the child his partner is carrying isn't his, and he shuts the door on the world in a single night.

For years he lives as a recluse, hoarding gold coins and trusting no one. Then one winter takes the lot. Thieves clean out his savings, and around the same time a stranger dies in the snow by his house, leaving a tiny daughter behind. The girl slowly thaws a man who had written himself off. And just as he learns to love again, the child's real father — local politician John Newland — turns up to claim her in court.

Martin produced the film and plays sharply against his comic image, working in quiet half-tones with barely a joke in sight. The script loosely moves George Eliot's novel Silas Marner to small-town America, with Gabriel Byrne and a very young Laura Linney beside him. A gentle pick if you like second-chance stories that don't oversell the tears. Stream A Simple Twist of Fate (1994) online on iFILM.